Basketball Quotes by Don Meyer

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

— Don Meyer

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

— Don Meyer

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

— Don Meyer

Every day you teach attitude.

— Don Meyer

The team is an extension of the coach.

— Don Meyer

To be a team, you must be a family.

— Don Meyer

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

— Don Meyer

To those who much has been given, much is expected.

— Don Meyer

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

— Don Meyer

In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

— Don Meyer

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

— Don Meyer

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

— Don Meyer

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

— Don Meyer

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

— Don Meyer

You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

— Don Meyer

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

— Don Meyer

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

— Don Meyer

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went…

— Don Meyer

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst…

— Don Meyer

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

— Don Meyer

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front…

— Don Meyer

You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours…

— Don Meyer

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every…

— Don Meyer

Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

— Don Meyer

We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put…

— Don Meyer

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time…

— Don Meyer

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never…

— Don Meyer

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

— Don Meyer

Have character, don't be one.

— Don Meyer

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

— Don Meyer

You have to learn to play with what you've got.

— Don Meyer

We can always do it better.

— Don Meyer

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

— Don Meyer

Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

— Don Meyer

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

— Don Meyer

When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

— Don Meyer

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

— Don Meyer

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

— Don Meyer

We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.

— Don Meyer

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

— Don Meyer